Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami was born in 1940.

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  • Homework

    مشق شب
    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1989 • Iran
    In Kiarostami's second documentary feature about education, the filmmaker himself asks the questions, interviewing a succession of invariably cute first- and second-graders about their home situations and the schoolwork they must do there. It emer...

  • First Graders

    اولی‌ها
    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1984 • Iran
    Inspired by his work at Kanoon and his own sons' schooling, the first of Kiarostami's two documentary features about education observes a schoolyard full of chanting, playful boys but mainly transpires in the office of a supervisor who has to dea...

  • Fellow Citizen

    همشهری
    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1983 • Iran
    Kiarostami's fascination with both Tehrani car culture and the uses of power in post-revolutionary society come together in this documentary about a traffic officer assigned to enforce driving restrictions in central Tehran (a locale near the dire...

  • First Case, Second Case

    قضیه شکل اول، شکل دوم
    Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1979 • Iran
    This banned and rarely seen pseudo-documentary by Kiarostami is a testimony to his seldom acknowledged political shrewdness and his objective, complex perspective on the tumultuous events of the late 70s in Iran, culminating in the ...